GEN 2 Best tire for traction?

[onthebrake]

Removing my stock beadlocks and KO2s and I wanted to know which tire provided the most grip on road? Seems like the Ridge Grapplers make the most contact but what other options are there?

Why did you buy a off-road truck, get rid of the beadlocks and the KO2's, and want the best street tire ? Are you going to lower the truck too ? Maybe put on some spoked Dayton wheels and some white walls ? Just trying to wrap my head around this . . .

 

[Maintecheib]

I like my 37" Cooper AT3 XLT's over my previous set of Toyo MT's. The on road wet handling is far better. Don't need 4 high to take off from a stop.

 

[nikhsub1]

I didn't say the were mud tires, I said they are not great in mud but are okay. In rain they do really well up here in the Pacific Northwest.

I know you didn't say that, I was agreeing with you

 

[engine45]

Cooper AT3 XLT have been excellent.




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Question on your 52’s . Are they hub centric? Are the caps hub centric ? And did they balance out good. I had methods on my gen1 and one rim would never balance out for shit. Even put on a set of hub centric caps and that one rim still sucked.

 

[borzraptor]

You are taking off the perfect Raptor tire. Nitto Ridge grapplers would be a minor step up for more dedicated off road/mud. Sounds like you might be wanting an All Weather tire and that would just be a waste on the Raptor. What issues are you trying to address? What road conditions have you thinking you need a change? Mostly wet roads? Mostly snowy roads? If you're going to dumb down the Raptor and make it a specialist for on road driving it helps to know exactly what your going for.

Getting a lot of wheel hop and breaks traction too easily under hard to moderate acceleration. PSA to all, I'm sorry I don't live in the desert or the forest and don't go jumping this truck over the dunes or pissing about in the mud Just trying to make it the perfect daily driver for me. Also thinking a more aggressive tire will better 0-60 times. Don't want to lose all the Raptor-ability and buy a standard AT tire - I still want to have grip in mud and wet surfaces like snow. Thanks for everyone's input

 

[Badgertits]

Getting a lot of wheel hop and breaks traction too easily under hard to moderate acceleration. PSA to all, I'm sorry I don't live in the desert or the forest and don't go jumping this truck over the dunes or pissing about in the mud Just trying to make it the perfect daily driver for me. Also thinking a more aggressive tire will better 0-60 times. Don't want to lose all the Raptor-ability and buy a standard AT tire - I still want to have grip in mud and wet surfaces like snow. Thanks for everyone's input

Sounds like traction bars or deaver/icon leafs would be better solution to your problem. As would driving in 4A more often lol

 

[borzraptor]

Why did you buy a off-road truck, get rid of the beadlocks and the KO2's, and want the best street tire ? Are you going to lower the truck too ? Maybe put on some spoked Dayton wheels and some white walls ? Just trying to wrap my head around this . . .

Simple - Daily drive my truck in the city and I want to be able to accelerate hard without wheel hopping or breaking traction in 2H. Just because I don't mud/jump/baja this truck, doesn't mean I want to throw its off-road capabilities out the door.

 

[Badgertits]

Simple - Daily drive my truck in the city and I want to be able to accelerate hard without wheel hopping or breaking traction in 2H. Just because I don't mud/jump/baja this truck, doesn't mean I want to throw its off-road capabilities out the door.

Again- what’s wrong w/ 4A?

There are no tires aside from possibly slicks or DRs that are going to prevent a 450hp/510Tq TRUCK w/ 4.10s & no weight in the back from spinning & wheel hop. The fix for the wheel hop ain’t the tires it’s the suspension/springs.

Putting on all season tires or P rated mall crawler ATs (like a Bridgestone Dueler AT bahaha) would probably make your traction even less than w/ KO2s

Putting any kind of performance tire that comes even close to the contact patch of factory spec would absolutely require going to a much wider wheel as well & you’ll be sacrificing function, look silly, & probably experience even WORSE wheel hop under hard acceleration w/o doing anything to the springs/shocks/axles.

Which again- is what makes it so awesome that the Raptor has a special transfer case w/ wet clutch pack to allow the raptors 4A mode to truly be like awd vs any other truck in “4 auto”

 

[HOLESHOT]

This has been my project, bfg loud and no traction wet and bad handeling, tried many tires finally ended up with Geolander GO15 had toyo AT3 good at first and got louder and louder and mpg went down 2.

 

[pbtjrlmrt]

Getting a lot of wheel hop and breaks traction too easily under hard to moderate acceleration. PSA to all, I'm sorry I don't live in the desert or the forest and don't go jumping this truck over the dunes or pissing about in the mud Just trying to make it the perfect daily driver for me. Also thinking a more aggressive tire will better 0-60 times. Don't want to lose all the Raptor-ability and buy a standard AT tire - I still want to have grip in mud and wet surfaces like snow. Thanks for everyone's input

For wheel hop get a KHC torque arm and/or use 4A for those hard accelrations.